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Philosophy & the Christian faith : a historical sketch from the Middle Ages to the present day
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Philosophy & the Christian faith : a historical sketch from the Middle Ages to the present day

Author: Colin Brown
Publisher: Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, ©1968.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Colin Brown
ISBN: 0877847126 9780877847120
OCLC Number: 24765824
Notes: "A note on books": p. [291]-309.
Description: 320 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 1. Medieval philosophy. The roots of medieval thought : Augustine and the early church ; Greek philosophy --
Metaphysics --
Anselm and the ontological argument --
Thomas Aquinas : The five ways ; The doctrine of analogy --
The significance of medieval philosophy : Two approaches to truth in religion ; The historical significance of Aquinas --
2. From the Reformation to the Age of Enlightenment. The cradle of modern thought --
The reformers and their successors : Luther ; The Reformation outside Germany ; Philosophy and the reformers --
Rationalism : Descartes ; Spinoza ; Leibniz ; Pascal --Empiricism : Locke ; Berkeley ; Hume --
The English Diests and their opponents : The revival of natural theology ; Sceptical Deism ; Replies to Deism --
Enlightenment and scepticism on the continent : Rousseau ; Voltaire ; Lessing ; Kant --
3. The nineteenth-century ferment. Schleiermacher : Life and works ; Schleiermacher's approach ; Comment --
Hegel and idealism : Idealism ; Hegel ; The progress of idealism --
Kierkegaard : Life and works ; Truth and Christianity --
Atheism and agnosticism : Feuerbach ; Marx and dialectical materialism ; Nietzsche ; Comte and positivism ; Mill and utilitarianism ; Peirce, James and pragmatism ; Darwin and evolution --
Trends in theology : Liberal theology ; Catholic reactions ; Conservative scholarship. 4. Philosophy and faith in the twentieth century. Logical positivism and linguistic analysis : Logical positivism ; Reaction ; Religious language --
Existentialism : Background and character ; Bultmann ; Tillich --
The new radicalism : The revival of radicalism ; Bonhoeffer ; Honest to God ; The death of God school --
The broader spectrum : Secular British philosophy : Wittgenstein, Moore and Russell ; Humanism ; Three independent thinkers : Otto, Bube and Teilhard de Chardin ; Neo-Thomism --
Philosophy and reformed theology : Cornelius Van Til ; Karl Barth ; Francis Schaeffer --
5. Postscript : The Christian and philosophy. Lessons from the past : The incompleteness of philosophical ; The dangers of allying the Christian faith too closely with any single philosophical system ; Natural theology ; Revelation and history --
The value and task of the philosophy of the Christian religion : The value of philosophy ; The task of the philosophy of religion.
Other Titles: Philosophy and the Christian faith
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Responsibility: Colin Brown.
Local System Bib Number:
102654
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